The Conservative Case for Class Actions

Fitzpatrick, Brian T.

ISBN 10: 022665933X / ISBN 13: 9780226659336

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Conservative Case for Class Actions
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022665933X
• ISBN 13: 9780226659336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Since the 1960s, the class action lawsuit has been a powerful tool for holding businesses accountable. Yet years of attacks by corporate America and unfavorable rulings by the Supreme Court have left its future uncertain. In this book, Brian T. Fitzpatrick makes the case for the importance of class action litigation from a surprising political perspective: an unabashedly conservative point of view.
           
Conservatives have opposed class actions in recent years, but Fitzpatrick argues that they should see such litigation not as a danger to the economy, but as a form of private enforcement of the law. He starts from the premise that all of us, conservatives and libertarians included, believe that markets need at least some rules to thrive, from laws that enforce contracts to laws that prevent companies from committing fraud. He also reminds us that conservatives consider the private sector to be superior to the government in most areas. And the relatively little-discussed intersection of those two beliefs is where the benefits of class action lawsuits become clear: when corporations commit misdeeds, class action lawsuits enlist the private sector to intervene, resulting in a smaller role for the government, lower taxes, and, ultimately, more effective solutions.
           
Offering a novel argument that will surprise partisans on all sides, The Conservative Case for Class Actions is sure to breathe new life into this long-running debate.
 

About the Author

Brian T. Fitzpatrick is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School. He graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School and with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and a Special Counsel to US Senator John Cornyn.